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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.



Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.



Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.



Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.



Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.



The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it



Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.



what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.



Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.



Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.



To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.



If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.



No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.



Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.



Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.







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